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SCHOOL SPENDING
LINCOLN—A short letter from Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman calling for higher salaries for teachers is creating a long list of concerns among school officials, while teachers are cheering both its content and timing. Groups representing school board members and school administrators are scheduled to meet with Heineman on Tuesday in the Governor’s Mansion to discuss the letter and try to persuade him to soften what appears to be a hard stance on teacher pay. By Nate Jenkins.
MO PLANE CRASH
LINCOLN—A Lincoln man says his pilot daughter was attempting an aggressive maneuver, but he doesn’t know what caused her plane to crash during practice for an air show in northwest Missouri. Harry Barr says Chandy Clanton died in the Friday crash that authorities said happened in a bean field east of Tarkio near U.S. Highway 136. She was 36. Eds: Will be led.
ROCKET CAMP
HASTINGS—Glue, glue and more glue was the order of the week for five campers at the Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History, in a class called Radical Rockets. Glue to attach four triangular, balsa wood fins to the rocket’s cardboard tube core. More glue, once the first coat was dry, to reinforce the fins. By Chris Ubben of the Hastings Tribune. Eds: A Nebraskaland Feature.
SPORTS:
— SHRINE FOOTBALL—The best high school football players from the senior class of 2009 will clash on July 25 at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln during the Shrine Bowl.
ALSO GETTING ATTENTION:
— HEARTLAND EXPRESSWAY—Gov. Dave Heineman says supporters of a project to complete the Heartland Expressway may have to give up a little to see the project move forward.
— SECURE LICENSES—The Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles will begin rolling out a new process for issuing drivers’ licenses beginning July 20.
— NEBRASKA SNAKES—Nebraska snakes will be on display and the topic of conversation at a workshop to be held this month at the Ak-Sar-Ben Aquarium near Gretna.
The AP, Omaha.
